Siren song of the Amalfi Coast

By Brian Johnston
Updated February 4 2017 - 1:28am, first published 12:15am
Terrace of the oyster bar at Le Sirenuse hotel in Positano.
Terrace of the oyster bar at Le Sirenuse hotel in Positano.

From Naples the road slinks improbably around the coastline, skirting past Sorrento and heaving over a headland before corkscrewing above a blue sea. Positano is jammed into a fold in the cliffs, and looks as if it could easily slide down with a clatter onto its beach far below. There is only space for a one-way road, and it plunges halfway down the town before surging up again, scraping by cafe chairs, postcard racks and wayside statues of the Virgin Mary.

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